Hinge.



HINGE.

APPLIOATION FILED APR.15, 1912.

1,034,158. 3 Pate mted July 30,1912;

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JOSEPH SOSS, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

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. Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 30, 1912.

Application filed April 15, 1912. Serial No. 690,707.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH Soss, a. citizen of the United States, andresiding at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State. of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hinges, of whichthe following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled inthe art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to hinges for doors and other swinging devices,and particularly to what are known as invisible hinges of the classdescribed and claimed in U. S. Letters Patent #1,009,108, granted to meNov. 21, 1911, also #1,011,512 granted to me Dec. 12,1911, also#1,019,096, granted to me March. 5,1912. These hinges and others of thisclass are used in connection with a stationary frame or support and aswinging door or like member, and the said door or like member may bemade according to the construction of the hinge, as shown in the toswing in either or both directions; and the object of this in vention isto provide improved means for securing the hinge in or to the stationaryframe or support whereby the swinging member or door may be quickly andeasily detached from the frame .or support, and as quickly. and easilyreplaced whenever necessary, a further object being to provide a hingeof the class specified which is particularly adapted for use inconnection with the doors of automobiles or similar vehicles,

and the construction and operation of which is such that the swingingmember or door may be easily detached with the operative parts of thehinge or hinges connected therewith whenever it is desired to wash orclean the automobile will be prevented from the operative parts of thehinge, and also from entering the mortises or recess in the frame orsupport of the door and into which parts of the hinge are inserted whenmounting the door; a further object being to provide a hinge box orcasing which is secured in the frame or support of the door and andwhereby water entering or wetting adapted to receive the correspondinghinge butt or member with the operative parts connected therewith, andinto. which'the cor responding hinge butt or member ma be easilyinserted in the mounting of the door, and whereby the door may beunmounted or detached without injury to the frame or support, whenevernecessary or desired; a

- separate parts with these and other objects in view my in- I ventionconsists in the construction, comb1nat1on and arrangement .of parts asherelnafter described and clalnied.

The invention is fully disclosed in the fol-' lowing specification ofwhich the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the v of myinvention are designated by suitable reference characters in each of theviewsfand in which Figure 1 is a face view of the hinge boxorcasingwhich I employ :-Fig. 2 is a side View thereof looking .in thedirectionof the arrow 2 of Fig. 1 :Fig. 3 a face view of one at tl hingebutts adapted to be inserted into e Fig. 4 a side view of the hingebutt, shown in ig. 3 looking in the direction of the arrow 4 of saidfigure :Fig. 5' a transverse section of a part of a door frame and apart of a door provided with one form of hinge, the section'througli thehinge members being on the line 5-5 of Figs. 1 and ,3 and showing thebutt of Fig. 3 mserted in the boxor casing of Figs. 1 and 2, and showingthe operative parts of the hinge and, indicating in dotted lines, theswing of the door, the hinge employed in this figure being such as topermit of th'e swinging of the door in one direction only :-Fig. 6 aview similar to Fig. 5, but showing a modified hinge the construction ofwhich is such as to permit the door to swing in both directions andshowing the hinge box or cas ing of Figs. 1 and 2 used in both the doorframe and the door. Fig. 7 a face view of a hinge box or casing similarto that shown in Figs. 1 and 2, but showing a modification.

In Fi s. 1 to 5 of the drawings, I have shown the-improvement, whichforms the basis of this application, applied to a hinge ox or casing,shown in Figs. 1 and 2:

like that-"described and claimed in U. S.

Letters Patent #1,009,108, hereinbefore referred to and in. Fig. 6, Ihave shown the said improvement ap lied to a hinge similar to that shownin igs. 1, 2 and 3 of Patent #1,019,096, hereinbefore referred to.

In the drawing forming part of this specification, .I have shown at a apart of a door frame and at b a part of a door, and in the practice ofmy invention, I provide, a

hinge butt 0. adapted to be secured to or in' the door 6 and a hingebutt d adapted to be secured to or in the door frame a, and I alsoprovide a hinge box or casing e which is adapted to be inserted into acorresponding mortise in the door frame and to receive the hinge butt(1, as hereinafter described.

The hinge butt 0 is the same as the corresponding hinge butt shown inFig. 4: of Patent #1,019,096, and is provided with rigid arms-o anydesired number of which may be employed, links a which are pivoted tothe ends of said arms, and L-shaped links 0* which are pivoted to saidarms at 0 all these parts being similar to corresponding parts shown insaid patent.

The hinge butt d comprises a body portion d having a central rectangularrecess or chamber d which opens through one side thereof and through theface thereof, thus forming two face plates (1* which project beyond theopposite side edges of the body portion, and said recess or chamber isprovided with a back d which does not extend entirely to the face ofsaid butt, but terminates at d and is provided with curved ribs dparallel with the side edges of said body portion, and said side edgesof said body portion are rounded or made semicircular in cross section,as indicated at d and the face plates (1 are provided with screw holes dThe hinge box or casing e which I employ comprises a face plate 6 havinga body portion e provided centrally with a rectangular 'recess orchamber e which opens through the face plate, and also through one sideof the body portion and the opposite side of which is provided with asupplemental recess 6 the'back'wall of which is curved inwardly andbackwardly, as shown in Fig. 5, and the longitudinal or verticaldimensions of which are less than the longitudinal or verticaldimensions of the recess or chamber e, and the top and bottom walls ofthe chamber or recess e are curved or semi-circular, as shown at e, tocorrespond with the form of the side edges 01 of the body portion of thebutt d. and the face of the box or casing e is provided wlth recesses e"to receive the face plates oZ of the butt d, and in the bottoms of whichare screw holes a to receive screws passed through the screw holes d insaid faceplates.

The back or side of the body of the butt d opposite the side which isopen is provided at the top and bottom thereof with ribs or projectionsd, and the open side of the box or casing e is providedwithcorresponding grooves e to receive said ribs or pro ections, and as thusconstructed the butt d may be inserted into the box or casing e, whichit will snugly fit, and said box or casing will be securely closed atall points, except the chamber or recess thereof which opens through theface thereof, and into which the arms 0 of the butt 0 pass and in whichthe link members 0 and a are movable, and in practice the links 0 and 0*are pivoted between the ribs d of the butt (1 by means of pins f whichare passed vertically therethrough and through the back of said butt.The arms; a of the butt 0 and the back wall of the chamber or recess eare so formed that when the door is closed the backs of said arms,orthat portion thereof adjacent to the butt 0, press against said wall,as clearly shown in Fig. 5, and the position of the links 0 is such thatthere is a. binding action between the separate parts of the hinge and alateral thrust which absolutely prevents the door from moving away fromthe frame in the plane thereof, but at the same time the said door willbe free to swing, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 5.

Although I have described the box or casing 6 as particularly adaptedfor use in, or in connection with the frame or support, the said box orcasing may be used in connection with the door, and in Fig. 6 I haveshown a modification of the construction shown in Figs. 1 to 5inclusive, in which said boxer casing is used in connection with boththe door frame and the door, and in which a hinge construction is shownsimilarto that shown and described in Figs. 1 to 3 inclusive of Patent#1,019,096, hereinbefore referred to, with the exception that the hingebutts employed are the butts d. In other words the hinge butts shown inFig. 6 are similar to, or the same as, the butts shown in Figs. 3 and 4,and these butts are employed in connection with corresponding boxes orcasings e. The movable parts of the hinge shown in Fig. 6 however, arethe same as the movable parts shown in Figs. 1 to 3 of Patent#1,019,096, and comprises S-shaped floating links 9 'which' extend intoboth the' door and the frame, when the door is closed, and to the endsof which are pivoted lock links it said links being pivoted to the buttsd in both the door and the frame, as shown at h and L-shaped links awhich are pivoted to the but-ts at 2' and to the floating links 9 at ithe construction and connection of these link members being the same asin said patent, and with this construction the door may swing in bothdirections as shown and described in said patent.

With the construction shown in Figs. 1 to 5 inclusive, it will beunderstood, that the door butt of the hinge is permanently secured tothe door, while the frame buttof the hinge is permanently secured, whenin use, in the box or casing 6, but may be detached therefrom wheneverdesired; while in the construction shown in. Fig. 6 the door butt of thehinge and the frame but-t of the hinge are both detachably secured inthe boxes or casings e which are secured in the door and frame by meansof screws passed through holes in the face plates of said boxes .orcasings.

In Fig. 7 I have shown a modification of the exception of thellock linksa in Fig. 5,,

and b in Fig. 6.

. It will be understood that this invention is not limited to thedetails of the construction of what are called the movable parts of thehinge herein shown and described, nor the exact details of theconstruction of the box' or casing e, and the butt or butts d, andvarious changes therein and modifications thereof, may be made, withinthe scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit ofmy invention or sacrificing its advantages.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is 1. A hinge comprising two butt membersconnected by movable parts and one of which, when in use, is adapted toswing in a horizontal plane, and a horror casing ada ted to be'securedin a support and into which I one of'said butts is adapted to beinserted,

and'to'be detachably secured thereon.

2. A hinge comprising two butt members ,connected by parts, some ofwhich are movable, and one of which, when in use, is

adapted'to swing in a horizontal plane, and.

a box or casing adapted to be secured in a support, one-of said buttsbeing adapted to be inserted into said box or detachably securedtherein.

3. A hinge comprising two butt members connected by movable parts, andboxes or casings adapted to be secured to a support and to a swlngingdevice, said butt members being adapted to be inserted into said boxesor casings and to be detachably secured therein.

In testimonythat I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname in presence of the subscribing witnesses this 12th day of Aprill912.-: JOSEPH SOSS.

casing and to be Witnesses C. MULREANY, S; ANDREWS.

